Avant garde Quote by Jonathan Miller

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends…

— Max Beerbohm

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.

— Domenico Dolce

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

— Bjarke Ingels

“To the horror of those who can genuinely claim to have suffered from its effects, alienation has proved a highly profitable commodity in the…

— Martin Jay

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

— Umberto Eco

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

— Martha Ostenso

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was…

— Tariq Ramadan

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

— Paul Fussell

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

— Paulette Goddard

I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. .…

— David Henry Hwang

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of…

— Alvin Lustig